Dreary Day (found and loved it)

Little Change

My Most Missed Memory

My little sister. There is so much to say about this beautiful individual. She is my blood, the one who I miss everyday when I wake up, the one that I worry about anytime I'm thinking. I understand where she is right now, and I know that she has the strength to overcome anything that she sets her mind to. I have all of the confidence in the world in her. Not just because she is my sister, but because she is smart,able, and special to my heart.

Looking Smoky

Makeover

Kay wanted me to give her a makeover. As I'm sure that you can tell. The one thing she made me promise is to not make her look like a clown. I'm sure this was accomplished lol. She still looks beautiful under all of that paint.

Extreme Temperatures

Buck

Country Haven

Blessings in a Bundle

Princess with the most compliments you could dream of.

Youngest niece and newphew. Doesn't the shirt just tell it all?
Too cute for words
My little man. He will be a heartbreaker, look at those baby blue eyes.

My Biggest Fan

My niece is by far my biggest fan. I have to watch what I do primarily because I know it will be repeated if seen. Her brother and sisters along with her are the light in my life. If it wasn't for those 4 blessings there is no telling where I would be at the moment.

Wise Quote

A friend of mine once educated me with this quote:
"If I am not for myself, who will be for me?
And when I am for myself, what am I?
And if not now, when?"
~Rabbi Hillel

These are very true words, that need to be pondered by everybody once in a while.
Whether you are a person who lives only for you, or one who lives your life for others.

Not Ashamed

I'm sure that most of the members of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender community are aware of what this flag symbolizes. For some, it is the freedom of love, identity, and hope for the future. The dream of partners lawfully being able to be seen as a true couple under the eyes of the constitution and society. Many people have been tortured through banishment from their family, and religious persecution. How can such evil be permitted?-many christians ask this question. They state that homosexual behavior is an outrage and an unforgivable sin. Others are more loose about the subject. I've heard it all: it's not natural, it's a choice. it's a phase. it's not really you. you'll grow out of it. Many people have to closet their personal life because they fear losing their job, reputation, and family. This my friend is the outrage, not what goes on in the privacy of one's house behind closed doors. Not who we love, or choose to be with. The fact that thousands of people commit suicide everyday because everyday of their life is a living hell for the sole fact that they are open and true to themselves. The outrageous number of hate crimes publicized everyday by the media because some ignorant person fears what they do not understand, or would even consider to comprehend. The one thing that is truly comical to me is that heterosexuals get so much credit and get put up on a mantle because that is the right relationship to have, that is a true companionship. Forget all of the adultery and abuse that is commited by these people. Just stereotype it on the homosexuals. That is what is easier for people correct? AIDS, fag, all words associated with homosexuals, how could anybody be so ignorant? One thing I leave people to consider.... when you look at your loved one at night, the person who you would give your life for, think for just one second that somebody told you that your love for them wasn't real... that it wasn't looked upon as equal and just... you are immoral and grotesque for having such emotions.... . Don't worry you can wake up from the nightmare now. The LGBT community has to deal with this. We wouldn't wish it on anybody.
I didn't choose this lifestyle, I didn't choose who I'm attracted to, but I did choose to come out and not be afraid to admit to myself and society that I am proud of who I am, and I am not ashamed.

Religion

Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.

~F. Forrester Church

The Shaman's Role

Men and women of the San "Bushman" Tribe from the Kalahari, Botswana, dancing a traditional dance at night.

A shaman of the Huli tribe from Papua New Guinea stands at an altar in a sacred place that is decorated with painted skulls.

A Tibetan shaman wearing a special "ringer" hat, which for centuries has been worn for aiding trances.

A modern day shaman from Kenya, wearing ceremonial headress.

Fetishes for sale at Lomé Voodoo market, Togo.

Widow's Trance

A group of Himba widows in Namibia in a healing trance, being exorcised of a lion spirit by a healer.

My Addiction

Wandering Eyes

Life Long Quest

Through out life we try to find purpose, reason, and the sense of accomplishment. How we come about these are different for everybody. Trying to find purpose for living, breathing; trying to find reason for actions, emotions; trying to find the sense of accomplishment in our everyday souls and spirits. Why do we always try to find these things? Why are we always searching for something beyond the horizon, over on the other side, when we have all that we need in our everyday lives? Why are we never content? Asking these questions does nothing more than adding on to the quest that will never be fullfilled. We are too blind to look at the signs, too deaf to hear our loved ones trying to guide us, and too stubborn to admit to the truth in something that our minds didn't think of in the first place.